Terms and Conditions

Users

Most importantly:

  • Each Blarket account must be held by one person only, and each person may hold only one Blarket account.
    • Also important:

  • Users may not link to certain categories of external site. These include:
  • Comments should be made only to further the sale process:
  • Users should take due care and perform due diligence when on either side of a transaction.
  • All users should diligently monitor listings they are interested in; Blarket can provide no guarantees about delivery of emails.
  • Users who are banned by Blarket administration can expect no refund of any monies paid.

    • Blarket’s Role

  • Blarket does not enter into monetary transactions or business dealings between marketplace buyers and sellers. Blarket is a neutral facilitator only, and will not be responsible for the failure of either party to follow through with their obligations, agreed or otherwise. The content of a marketplace listing is the responsibility of the respective sellers including compliance with all laws and not engaging in misleading and/or deceptive conduct and therefore Blarket is not liable for any violations of rights of a third party, in particular intellectual property rights, trade mark rights, and copyright resulting from a marketplace listing. Blarket reserves the right to remove any listing, bid, offer or comment from the system at its own discretion.

    • Listings

  • By submitting a listing, you grant Blarket a permanent, irrevocable and unrestricted license to store and display the details of your listing.
  • By submitting a listing, you agree that in the event of a sale your contact details will be sent to the winning bidder.
  • The seller must have the right and good faith intention to sell the item listed.
  • The seller is obliged to sell to the user who made the winning bid or offer.
  • A user making a winning bid or offer is obliged to buy for the amount of the winning bid or offer.
  • The seller must provide full details of the item for sale, and must not intentionally hide information from public view.
  • Items may not be offered for sale through any other channel while the subject of a listing is on Blarket.
  • Listings breaching any guideline may be suspended or removed without refund of any monies paid.

    • Auctions

  • A reserve price must be set, and the reserve must be equal to or greater than the minimum bid price.
  • The reserve price may not be made public by any means.
  • The reserve price may not be changed once it has been met.
  • The reserve price may be raised only if no bids have yet been placed.
  • A Buy It Now price, if it exists, must be equal to or greater than the reserve price.
  • Both the Buy It Now price and the reserve price may be lowered, but neither may be changed to an amount lower than the highest accepted bid.
  • The listing will publicly display whether or not the reserve price has been reached by an accepted bid.
  • Bids made in the final four hours postpone the end time to four hours after the bid was placed.
  • An auction is completed once it has ended and all bids made in the last 72 hours have either been accepted or rejected.
  • If an auction is completed and the reserve price is not met, the listing is passed in and all accepted offers immediately expire.
  • If there are bids greater than or equal to the reserve price, the highest accepted bid is the winning bid.

    • Bids and Offers

  • Bids and offers are anonymous to everyone except the seller.
  • Making a bid or offer agrees that you may be the winning bidder, and that if so your contact details will be communicated to the seller.
  • Sellers may not bid or offer on their own listing, either on their own behalf or through an intermediary.
  • Users may not reveal to other users who placed a bid or offer, whether via PM or public comment or any other way.
  • Bids or offers without a response from the seller within 72 hours will be automatically rejected.
  • Responding to a bid or offer is permanent; rejected bids may not be subsequently accepted, and accepted bids may not be subsequently rejected.

    • Bids

  • Bids are legally binding and irrevocable until a higher bid is accepted, at which time the previous highest bid expires.
  • Bids may not be withdrawn by the bidder.
  • All bids must be either accepted or rejected by the seller.
  • Buy It Now bids without a response within 72 hours will be automatically accepted.
  • Buy It Now bids may only be placed if the BIN price has not yet been matched or exceeded by an accepted bid.
  • When a Buy It Now bid is placed, no other bids may be placed until that bid is accepted or rejected.
  • Acceptance of a Buy It Now bid means the user who placed that bid is the winner, and the auction is won.
  • If the seller specifies their PayPal address, Buy It Now bids may only be placed by direct PayPal payment; in this case, the bid is always accepted when the PayPal payment is made.

    • Offers

  • Offers less than the minimum offer will not be accepted by the system.
  • Offers may be retracted at any point before they are accepted by the seller.
  • Offers are legally binding and irrevocable once accepted by the seller.

    • Credits

  • If a website is successfully sold, the amount of credits purchased for that listing will be refunded.
  • If a website gets sold with refunded credits, users do not get any additional credits.
  • Users must purchase credits in order to receive a credit refund.

    • Refunds

  • Listing fees will be refunded as required by Australian law, and beyond that at Blarket’s discretion.